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Hello everyone, everywhere.

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Pastor Bob Thibodeau here.

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Welcome to your 15 minute Bible walk today.

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And we're so blessed you're joining us.

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We left off last time with Melchizedek coming to Abraham or Abram at the time wasn't Abraham.

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And we discussed the very real possibility, especially when you go through the Jewish traditions and the Talmud and all that that identifies Shem as Melchizedek or Melchizedek as Shem, son of Noah, who was carrying the mantle basically of the anointing.

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That's why he's recognized as the high priest of the most high God, because he's the one who had the direct blessing from Noah.

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God bless Noah.

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Noah bless Shem.

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It's got to be one of his bloodline that takes the mantle from him.

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And he's looking, remember, he's 600 years old.

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This guy is.

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He's alive at the same time as Abram.

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He's been looking, you know, he's probably been praying.

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God, who is going to take this over?

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It has to be somebody that, that can handle the responsibility.

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Someone that, you know, someone that you are blessing.

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You got to show me who this is.

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That's probably what his prayer has been.

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And then word comes, hey, one of your descendants just defeated four armies of Sodom and Gomorrah, that whole area.

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And they.

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He defeated four armies with 300 people trained in his own house.

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And Shem, it's like that is the sign of God's blessing.

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That's the only way that could happen.

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That is a miraculous victory.

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It has to be his chosen one.

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So Shem and ours thinking here, Melchizedek, the high priest was really Shem hunted down Abram, I gotta go to this guy.

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And he got there just, you know, according to the Bible, right here, right after the battle, when the kings came to Abram and said, you know, hey, you know, just give us this, this, that, and you can, you can have all the stuff and all that stuff.

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Just give us the people.

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We want our people back.

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But that happened right after what we see here in verse 18.

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Melchizedek, king of Salem, which we're calling Shem, son of Noah, brought forth bread and wine.

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Those are covenant things, bread and wine, even emphasized by Jesus, right?

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For he was the priest of the most high God.

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And Melchizedek, Shem blessed Abram and said, blessed be Abram of the most high God possessor, who is the possessor of heaven and earth.

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So here we see Shem at this point in time, at this point in time.

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Abram's 85 years old.

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Okay?

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Shem is 475 years old.

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Shem lived another 125 years after this.

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But for all this time, if you.

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I mean, if you go back and do the counting on the years, that's where we're at, okay?

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Shem's 80.

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Abrams, 85.

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Still got 15 years till his son's born.

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Shem is.

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He was 390 when Abram was born.

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So 85 years.

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So that makes Shem four hundred and seventy five years old.

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Okay?

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He's still alive.

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He's still got one hundred and twenty five more years to live.

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But he's been wondering who's going to take this over.

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And now he knows.

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Amen.

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So he gives God's blessing to Abram.

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They cut covenant together.

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Bread and wine.

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They take covenant together.

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Abram gives him ties.

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Verse 20.

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He says, possess.

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We'll start verse 19.

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He blessed him, said, blessed is Abram of the most high God, who is the possessor of heaven and earth.

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And he be blessed by the most high God which has delivered your enemies into your hand.

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And Abram gave him tithes of all he had, not just all of what he took from the battle.

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He says he gave him ties of all.

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Where did he learn that from?

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Right?

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He.

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He gave Shem.

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I mean, remember we talked several episodes back that Abram knew who Shem was.

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Abram knew.

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Hey, you know, this guy, you know, in your bloodline way back, you know, this guy is him, son of Noah.

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And, you know, he's the king of the.

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Right, you know, settling in the Jerusalem area, obviously.

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King of Salem, which is Jerusalem, right?

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And he says, you know, he knows this guy is him.

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But Shem doesn't know who Abram is until now, when word spread, you know, I gotta go down there.

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I gotta meet this guy.

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And he recognized the anointing on Abram right there.

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And he cut covenant with Abram, said, you are blessed by the most high God.

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And then Abram blessed Shem with ties of all.

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At that point in time, the king of Sodom and Gomorrah, you know, they know who Shem is.

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They hear, they.

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They've heard about this guy, right?

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And they're like, hey, let's impress him too.

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We're going to give Abram every, you know, hey, you can have it all.

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Just give us the people to us.

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You can have all the good for yourself.

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But Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand under the Lord.

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Did he do that when did Abram lift his hand up, Lord.

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Capital L O R D.

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Aloeem.

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Right.

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I have lifted up my hand.

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Honda Elohim, the Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth.

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Oh, wait a minute.

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We just heard something back up to where the blessing was given to Abram by Shem.

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He blessed and said, blessed be Abram of the Most High God over here.

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He said, I've lifted up my hand to the most high God possessor.

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Be Abraham of the Most High God, possessor of heaven on earth.

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I have lifted up my hand to the the Elohim, the Lord, the Most High God, the possessor of heaven and earth.

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He's got it.

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He got it.

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He knows he's blessed right now.

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He is blessed by God.

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I don't need nothing from nobody.

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God is my provider from this moment forward.

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Praise God.

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Don't shout me down when I'm preaching.

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Good.

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Hallelujah.

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He says, I will not take from a thread even to a shoelace.

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A shoelace.

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I'm not going to take anything that's yours.

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Lest you should try and say I made Abram rich.

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Because that's what would happen.

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He said, I'm giving you everything.

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Just get the people to me because I can put them back to work.

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We get all this back.

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He said, nope, I don't need you.

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I raised my hand.

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When did he raise his hand?

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When they cut covenant.

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Praise God.

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Are you getting this?

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This is important stuff moving forward, folks.

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Praise the Lord.

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This is important stuff.

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He goes, I have made a covenant with Almighty God.

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I won't take nothing that doesn't belong to me.

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Everything I get from this moment forward comes from God who praise God.

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Hallelujah.

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Because I won't even take a shoelace from you unless you say, I try.

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Try to say I made Abram rich.

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The only thing I ask is the young men.

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Just give us what the young men have already eaten and the portion of the men which went down with me.

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So you can give a portion to them if you want.

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That's all I ask.

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And with me was Ayner, Eskal and Mamre.

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Let them take their portion.

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But I don't need nothing from you.

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Amen.

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Praise God.

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Now I'm going to read chapter 15, verse one, because I want you to see what's going to happen next.

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And we'll cover this in the next episode.

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Says after these things, after Abram did this, after Abram met, he met.

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I don't want to say his idol.

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I don't want to do that.

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That's a bad term.

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He met Shem.

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He'd heard so much about Noah and the flood and their descendants and.

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And how, you know, they're their ancestors.

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No.

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And my bloodline comes all the way back to Noah himself.

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And we're through Shem's line, you know, like that.

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And Shem is blessed of God.

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He is like the high priest of God on this earth right now because, you know, it's through him, the blessings coming and all this.

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And now, you know, he gets to meet him.

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He got to meet Noah's son, who represents the most high God.

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And this guy just blessed Abram.

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Anointing Abram.

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Moving forward, you are now from your loins will come the descendants God's looking for.

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Praise God.

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Hallelujah.

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That's what we're getting out of this, folks.

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After these things, the word of the Lord, Jehovah, Yahweh himself came to Abram in a vision, saying, do not fear, Abram.

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I am your shield and your exceedingly great reward.

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There's promise number three.

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Praise God.

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Oh, what do you mean, number three?

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Okay, I'll go back and read promise number one.

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All the land you see before you, I'm giving it to you.

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Promise number one.

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Number two.

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Promise number two.

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I'll make your descendants as the dust of the earth.

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That's back in chapter 13, verses 15 and 16.

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All right, promise one.

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I'm blessing you.

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Promise two.

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Everywhere you go, everything you see.

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This is all yours now, boy.

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And your descendants.

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Promise number one.

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All of the stuff you see belongs to you.

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Number two.

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You're going to have descendants as numerous as the sea, as numerous as the sand in the sea.

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That's promise number two.

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And now we see promise number three.

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I am the most high God himself.

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I am your shield.

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I'll be protecting you from this moment forward.

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And I am your exceedingly great reward.

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That's the third promise now that he's gotten from God.

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Praise the Lord.

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We're going to leave it right there.

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I got the Holy Ghost bumps all over me right now.

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I hope you do, too.

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Praise the Lord.

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Isn't this powerful stuff?

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You just take your time and look at this.

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That's what we are doing.

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We're going verse by verse through the Bible on this podcast, and it's going to take us.

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You know, this isn't something that's going to be finished in 10 months or 12 months.

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I'm anticipating three years of this.

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Amen.

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But I tell you what, you stick with me.

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Oh, praise God.

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You can't help but be blessed.

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I mean, I'm just.

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I'm chomping at the bed.

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I want to do like 10 of these episodes every single day.

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Get it done.

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But that's not what I'm being led to do as a daily thing because I want a spoon feed.

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If I give you too much, you won't remember what we're talking about.

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Amen.

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So drop down the show notes.

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Tell me what you think about what we just studied today.

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To me, this is so powerful.

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It is so powerful.

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Powerful.

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You can't help but be blessed.

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You can't help but be excited.

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If this doesn't set you on fire right now, it's because your wood's wet.

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Praise God.

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It's time to dry out, too.

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Hallelujah.

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That's all the time we have for today.

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Praise the Lord.

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Till next time, Pastor Bob, reminding you to be blessed in all that you do.